spade-farmers

Updated: May 11, 2025

Here, too, these little spade-farmers are put under the same regime as the great tenant agriculturists of the country. Each must farm his allotment according to the terms of the yearly lease. He must dig up his land with spade or pick, not plough it; and he is not allowed to work on it upon the Sabbath.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's